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The Institute for Women’s Policy Research studied the status and well-being of women across the states in 2004, and gave Idaho poor grades – mostly D’s and F’s – for measures including social and economic autonomy, employment and earnings, reproductive rights and more. Idaho ranked dead last in the nation for the percentage of women in managerial or professional occupations, at just 24.6 percent, and the state ranked 40th for women’s earnings compared to men’s. Overall, the institute found that more of Idaho’s women work than most other states’ women, but they’re not getting good jobs or good pay. The state ranked well in one area, however: Having a state Women’s Commission, like 41 other states. Now, Sen. Joyce Broadsword, R-Sagle, is proposing eliminating that commission. You can read my full story here in today’s Spokesman-Review.
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stebbijo on February 03 at 9:19 a.m.
While Broadsword was getting to the corporate and political table, I was busy trying to make ends meet on a nurse aid wage of $3.95 cents an hour and driving 40 miles to get it. The job could not even pay for the gas and at the same time the crummy I was driving was losing the crankshaft. Then the legal system in Bonner County decided I was making enough to pay child support, while my timber related ex’s business showed nearly a million dollars a year - grossed in Broadsword’s area.
If our representatives want to make a real difference, halt the rennovation of the capital and use that money for critical programs that are being cut regarding children, the vets, the disabled, and law enforcement. A nice looking capital building is not going to fix the mess we are in. This thing is supposed to cost us somewhere around a whopping of 80 MILLION? Cutting the Women’s Commission is someone’s JOB and if they don’t need it, give it to somebody who does.